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REDD Intelligence (REDD), a fixed-income intelligence and analytics platform focused exclusively on the emerging markets, will now provide subscribers with a news and analysis service covering green and sustainable bonds issued by emerging market borrowers.
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Digital asset investment product inflows lhit a record total of USD1.31 billion last week, following a period of minor outflows, according to CoinShares.
ACDX is launching the Bull Bear Strike Token (BBS), a leveraged derivatives product that combines perpetual futures and options.
“The current specifications of most derivatives products are too complicated. At ACDX, we want to simplify the whole process to make crypto investment user-friendly for both beginner and sophisticated traders. Busy traders nowadays yearn for an all-rounded yet simple product. That’s how the idea of BBS arises. Moreover, as traders’ appetite for cryptocurrencies continues to escalate, ACDX believes the demand for structured crypto products will follow suit,” says Andy Cheung, Founder of ACDX.
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The world’s 20 biggest hedge fund firms took home around half of all gains made by the entire industry last year, as successful stock-picking and individual manager skill sent returns soaring among the sector’s behemoths, leaving quant-based strategies in their wake.
Overall, the hedge fund industry generated UD127 billion net of fees last year, according to new research by LCH Investments, a fund of hedge funds which is part of the Edmond de Rothschild Group.
Some USD63.5 billion of that total was generated by the top 20 largest hedge fund managers, including the likes of Tiger Global, Millennium Management, and
Managed futures hedge funds have made a positive early start to the year, following a tough 12 months in which volatility spikes and see-saw performances in many assets made it tricky for computer-based strategies to capitalise on market trends.
Two out of the three daily CTA indices produced by Société Générale were in the black entering the final week of January.
The main SocGen CTA Index, which measures the daily performance of a select pool of 20 of the largest managed futures strategies, has advanced 1.43 per cent since the start of 2021.
The gain continues the index’s recent positive
The SS&C GlobeOp Forward Redemption Indicator for January 2021 measured 1.78 per cent, down from 3.95 per cent in December.
“SS&C GlobeOp’s Forward Redemption Indicator for January 2021 of 1.78 per cent reflects lower redemption notices than the 2.26 per cent reported a year ago,” says Bill Stone, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, SS&C Technologies. “This reduction in redemptions marks the seventh consecutive month of year-over-year improvement and is the lowest level of redemptions for any month of January since the inception of the Forward Redemption Indicator in 2008. Hedge fund asset retention has been generally strong since the COVID-19
Fund administration provider Phoenix American has formed a new partnership with Pennsylvania-based life settlement company Lighthouse Life Capital.
Phoenix American will fulfil the back-office operational needs of Lighthouse Life with its industry-leading investor services platform featuring the state-of-the-art STAR-XMS shareholder management/transfer agent system. Lighthouse Life will benefit from Phoenix American’s combination of advanced technology, partner-oriented client service and long experience with the unique operational requirements of alternative investment funds.
Lighthouse Life Capital’s fixed income debt investments, Beacon Bonds, provide investors the ability to participate in the life settlement asset class. Lighthouse Life’s strategy is to source and purchase unwanted, unneeded
Phase 2 Partners (Phase 2), a new financials-focused long/short equity manager investing predominately in the US and Europe, has launched with nearly USD150 million in commitments from multiple investors, including a strategic partnership with leading institutional investors the Employees Retirement System of Texas (ERS) and PAAMCO Launchpad, a subsidiary of PAAMCO Prisma.
Phase 2, founded by industry veteran Justin Hughes, will target directional investments (long and short) in traditional financial sub-sectors as well as areas in FinTech. This will include traditional asset managers, global exchanges, retail brokers, alternative asset managers, payments, bank technology, financial information, and transaction hardware/software, among others.
Founded by a team of Italian former investment bankers, London-based activist hedge fund Bluebell Capital Partners has gained impressive momentum over the past year with its focus on listed, predominantly European large-cap companies.
Brummer Multi-Strategy CEO Mikael Spångberg says the firm is in a “good position” to deliver continued positive performance, after the flagship strategy posted its second-best annual performance to date – but he underlined the importance of generating alpha in the face of unpredictable markets.
